Sherborn, Mass.
April 2, 1920.Dear Miss Turner,
If I were superstitious I'd consult a ouija board to find out why I am not allowed to meet you. I was in the Union Station, Balt. standing between the gates by the clock outside from 8.15 Mon. night till 8.35. Also again at 9.30. I don't understand when you got off & how you could have got by me. I was planning on your spending that night with [me] before I left Tues.
Yes, I saw Amy Hewes. Sunday P.M. March 28th, but I don't remember of entrusting her with any message, to you except general greetings in case she saw you. I had a disappointing time with her. She asked me to call that she might consult me about a senior (Pres. of the Dramatic Club) who seems to be having a depression (not eating or sleeping & worrying over the hard fate of the masses). Amy had planned to put her into the government working track in N.Y.C. to spy on their employers next winter. A. said she expected to spend the summer in England. Is afraid she may be arrested any time as a Bolshevist. The latter statement was extracted from her by Miss Goddard's suggestion that she be furnished with a list of the Economic Department's activities thro' their students, to be used by Miss G. to pry money from practical financiers. Amy wouldn't give it to her, but she said she'd send her some work of her statistics class which she uses to blind wealthy inquiries into her propoganda work among the students. We argued along such topics in general. The only thing she can see is a living wage. She is one of those terrible reformers who make panaceas for the mass without ever considering the personality ingredients of the individual. To one diet is the panacea, to another sex education, to a third prohibition, to fourth wage adjustment & so on. Adolf Meyer is the only unligated [?] student of humanity's needs that I know about. Amy & I had a warm afternoon.
Write me about your J.H. visit. Did you see Miss Taylor? What thinkest thou of her?
Much love
from
Esther